Decor January-February 2019

Kitchens will be smart
with Tresette
Tresland Mutfak, A plus kitchen brand of
Aslandağ Group, accelerated its R & D
efforts to produce smart kitchens.
Tresette Mutfak, which is produced by Aslandağ Group in
the ready-made kitchen sector, is preferred by the consumers
in luxury projects in various places in the world.
Recently, the brand’s new goal is to accelerate its efforts to
carry technology to kitchens; “Smart Kitchen”. Stating that
they started R & D studies on this issue, Aslandağ Group
Chairman Cemal Aslandağ gave the good news that the
kitchens could be controlled by voice command system in
the following years.
First of all, what would you like to say about the latest
trends in the kitchen?
Following Artella, we also serve our customers with the
Tresette kitchen group. In this sense, we can say we are
one of the top three brands in Turkey. The kitchen adds nice
values to us as a group and brand we love very much. We
come from the core of this business and we started this
business with workshop. We used to make kitchen in the
early days. Then we went to the door and the same turnover
in our two brands. But as I said the kitchen was more enjoyable
for us. The kitchens have changed from being a place
where food is used to being an active area to living. As a
result of this, the technology has reached a better point in
the communication age, the contraction in the construction
sector and the design of the houses in a more minimal way
have changed the habits of consumers. Our products are
now called kitchen furniture, not kitchen cabinet. People
cook and eat here, wash their dishes and use it as a storage
area. Since all of these are gathered in one area, the name
of this place should be not a kitchen, but a place where
we can spend time. We are working in this direction. For
these, we meet customers with special colors and designs.
We design and offer an area to the customer according to
people’s personal lifestyle, culture and average age. That’s
what makes us different.
Which points do you touch in the eight kitchens with the
shrinkage of square meters and the kitchens are now a
habitable area?
First of all, it is necessary to open very narrow spaces in
the most comfortable way. First you make a design and
besides, there are completely built-in products and devices.
We also need to make the inside of the cabinets fully
usable. For example, special drawers coming out from the
bottom of kitchens, bottles, spices. Our customers want
to use even the most remote points in their kitchen. As a
brand against them, we touch the points such as bottles,
baskets, lighting details in the products. Previously, when
customers looked at kitchen furniture, they would pull the
drawer and see if there was a braking system. They don’t
look at it anymore. It is because it has become a standard
and needs to be already. Is there a different or useful lighting
system? What are the different features of the built-in
countertop? That’s what they’re interested in. Otherwise,
dishwashers are normally placed under the counter. We
place the dishwashers under the counter but at the waist
level. Our customers are provided ease of use without any
difficulty without bending.
Do you have new products for 2020 or later?
In kitchens, we have serious studies about accessories. To
illustrate, we used button covers and inventories for lighting.
Now, touch-sensitive cabinet doors with sensors have
become more preferred. The products we plan to make
in the coming period will work with voice commands. This
is our dream. Our R & D activities are continuing. When
you enter the kitchen, you issue a command to the intelligent
system. When you want to buy rice, it’s almost there.
These will be the products we will offer to our customers
in the future.
Kitchens are changing according to cultures. What do your
customers abroad demand from you?
According to people’s lifestyle, everyone has a culinary
dream. For example, we sell kitchen to America. Everything
of them is extensive. They usually choose the island
kitchen style, with the stations in the middle of the kitchen.
Since there are large areas in square meters, it is easier to
make them. But the walls are asked edge of the island due
to the small apartment kitchen Turkey. Europe is between
these two. Both island and U kitchens are preferred. These
vary depending on the condition of the apartment and the
housing. The kitchens we built in San Francisco are living
spaces combined with a 60 square meter lounge.
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